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...that Obama will not weigh in on many of the more contentious issues until a health-care bill passes both houses and reaches a conference committee this fall, much as he has done with other big bills. There are areas where Obama will be needed to help cut a final deal: determining which taxes will be raised and which programs will be cut to pay for the legislation; defining the shape and size of a public plan; deciding what businesses and individuals will be required to do. Between now and then, White House officials say, don't be surprised...
...From the publication of the first Harry Potter book in 1997 to the final volume a decade later, J.K. Rowling's septet of adventures has enchanted tens of millions of kids, their older siblings and all those adults who are as fascinated by the wizarding world as any child. The books held many delights for the very young: the Quidditch matches, magical beasts and wand work. But as Harry and his classmates entered puberty, Rowling began to address a time of grand and awful responsibilities, the transformation of the body before the mind is ready, the queasy realization that every...
...final films, the boy will grow into the holy warrior. Those climactic works couldn't have a stronger prelude than Half-Blood Prince - an evocation, not leering but knowing, of adolescence under siege...
...Taylor's testimony is expected to last six to eight weeks, and a final verdict in the case is likely a year off. If convicted, he would serve his jail sentence - he's facing life imprisonment - in Britain. But even if he is acquitted, it doesn't mean his worries are over. Last week, the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a report on the 1989-2003 civil wars. It has a list of eight warlords whom it wants brought to trial for crimes against humanity - and Taylor is on that list...
...trying to do just that for a decade longer than Obama has - may simply have recognized that the U.S. pressure that has been required to get both sides simply to make confidence-building gestures is nothing compared with what will be required to get them to accept a final peace agreement...